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Every time one of these articles come out, my Google+ stream fills with this stories. In fact, I read it first on Google+ than on Hacker News.

If you are on Google+, and you participate, you will notice that it's a big success. I'm not saying this because I love Google, I'm saying it because it's almost the only social network I feel compelled to use.

You really can't use the word guys as they are not being discriminated in this world (in the majority of cases). Copying and pasting from another comment of mine.

Imagine if instead he said: "I hate black people who steal". Of course he does! But he must also hate white people who steal, in fact, he hates people who steal. There's no need for specifying race.

I think the problem is that he could have said that people who feel superiority for their reproductive organs (or whatever) are annoying. The thing is that he seems to say that women who have that problem are annoying, which completely overlooks the problem. What I mean is that it doesn't matter if it's women or men who feel this superiority, so there's no need for specifying gender.

Imagine if instead he said: "I hate black people who steal". Of course he does! But he must also hate white people who steal, in fact, he hates people who steal. There's no need for specifying race.

We may still not know the effects of having laptops in the classroom. Five years is little time to be measuring these things, specially considering that the ones who started using laptops have not reached majority of age. This is the same as saying that a new science curriculum does not work without having a real world test. We have to wait to see the results.

This should not be used as an excuse to implement one of this programs. Just saying that no results yet is different that net negative results or no new learning. Like someone in the comments in the article said, he became interested in computers because of his Commodore when he was little, which didn't reflect until he was of age.

P.S.: And the sight of kids on the streets, even the ones who are homeless or live in really precarious homes, using laptops and laughing is really a wonderful thing.

Really good article. I've had so many problems with X... we can only hope.

Wow, it's so great we can patent all that great, super innovative stuff! And it's beneficial to society and innovation too!

I get it that the person who wrote this is angry, but not a single real commentary in there. And not "(seriously)". At least provide more arguments, compare their The Rules with those of other awards, and please, give a more extended explanation of why you think all the things you mentioned are bad.

A Chrome representative said that they weren't going to fix this. I can't find the source. He/she said that they had a few arguments about this, but that they feel that by not showing your password they are creating a false sense of security.

Every browser has to store passwords in a way that's recoverable (as they need to be sent to the server), so if you store them and you lose control of your computer, you WILL most probably lose control of your passwords too, in every browser including IE9 (something this page, http://www.thewindowsclub.com/chrome-firefox-show-passwords-..., does not seem to understand).

Although I agree with many bits of this article, I find it misguided. First of all, I think everybody knows by now that we are using a product and are not the costumers. Thinking that people do not know that makes this article have a "smarter than thou" feeling.

Secondly, I think Google, as most other companies out there, do not just focus their energies in one revenue stream (although it may be the biggest one) and do not create products for a single reason. So, thinking Google+ is just a way to make directed ads easier is oversimplifying things. That may be part of it, but not letting Facebook create a Walled Garden is another part, and create loyal users is another one.

Great. Now I just want to know how did this happen and what measures were taken to prevent this from happening again.

I cannot understand the fear this article explains. If it tried to express that it came from the fear of having his private data known to the world or even a few people, I would understand.

But the article explains that he doesn't want targeted advertisement that no one knows about. In fact this is kind of a fear that machines will find out about his data. And although AI has really grown into something powerful, it has not yet come to the level of conscience, so I cannot relate to the fear of a computer having my data.

(P.S.: I do understand if we are talking about Google handing data to other companies or the government, but that goes unmentioned here)

As they are saying, it seems that Google is just getting started.

That's true, but I just feel that's not the Google's way of doing things. I mean, they never forced you to use their other products in the past, so this comes as a surprise to me.

Of course, it's their company they can do whatever they want. That doesn't mean we can't judge them.

Yes, if they have operations in the US they can be prosecuted, I believe. What's even worse for Megaupload in this case is that they had started legal proceedings themselves in the US. If they can use the US law, they have to abide them.

I'm not sure, and I'm a Google fanboi, so don't just take my word, but this is just a theory: maybe the contractors had some kind of contract where they would get compensation for getting more users or for conversion. Something in that area.

Wow! Really good unbiased article on why some people support SOPA/PROTECT-IP. It's hard to find these things these days when everyone is accusing the government of being run by corporations.

When wasn't this a witch hunt?

Since discussion on SOPA began, the Internet and the hivemind started to condemn everyone that supported it.

I don't think it's about blaming Wikipedia because of using GoDaddy, but making them think if it should be a good option to switch.

I think it is. But they also hosted it on YouTube.

What I don't like about the download bar is that it takes too much space. Maybe they can make it smaller or customizable a bit.

I'm not sure if this article is trying to say that those small differences account for the differences between the percentage of men and women in YC, or if it's just disproving the mathematical aspect of the TechCrunch article.

I'm not saying either of those articles is right, but clearly none have shown why that difference exist.

I believe that the structure of the language helps translating OO design to code. As OO is the preferred way of enterprises to describe their products (which may not always be the best way), they tend to think Java will make the product better.

I think Java right now is easily understandable by blue collars (not the code, but the architecture and the design part). It may not be the right choice, but big companies try to avoid the unknown and they tend to think that things they can understand (OO being an example) are better than the other options.

Nobody said the iPhone 4S wouldn't sell nor that it was a bad phone. Just that we were hoping more from Apple, and that the company didn't do anything innovative this year. I still think the same, but I'm hoping Siri will prove me wrong (because it would be really cool), but I don't count on it.

I think this chart is completely wrong. Of course, it's a marketing thing, but anyway. It doesn't even highlight the sections where the iPhone 4S is better.

Either way, I do believe the Galaxy S II is better than the iPhone 4S, and although I think fanbois don't care about these stuff, things such as microSD slot, 4G, weight and price matter to most people; maybe they don't care about the other technical mumbo jumbo.

And, please, Kies SUCKS!

I somewhat agree with Microsoft, but if, and only if, they provide another easy way to run commands and see all other applications... Either way, I think Windows 7 is too different from Windows 98 to ever go mainstream. People just want a better looking Windows 98.

EDIT: Meant Windows 8, not 7